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by nothis 2y ago
Dropbox is still unmatched as a service not trying to push you into a trillion dollar monopoly (One Drive, iCloud, Google Drive). It's admittedly been a while but I tested a whole bunch of automatic cloud backup software at one point b
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by nothis 2y ago
I'm not pretending to understand half the words uttered in this discussion but I'm constantly reminded of how much it helps me to articulate things (explain them to others, write them down, etc) to understand them. Maybe that thin
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by nothis 3y ago
There was a whole "now we finally have the technology!" push for VR in the late 80s/90s. Google the Forte VFX1, for example. Jaron Lanier made one of the first ever TED Talks in 1990 and it was about how VR will revolutionize
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by nothis 3y ago
>Its solar cells are working again after a shift in lighting conditions allowed it to catch sunlight, the agency said. >It could not generate power when it landed on 20 January as the solar cells pointed away from the Sun. Sounds like
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by nothis 3y ago
Hyper-naive take: Couldn't nearly all of these attacks be blocked by a white-list approach, essentially hiding every file or directory from the internet except a very controlled list of paths and escaping all text sent so it can't
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by nothis 3y ago
I know Nintendo will never allow it to exist in the open but is this a way to archive the actual levels or just a list of names/codes? I'm genuinely sad thinking about the (very real) possibility of them vanishing forever.
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by nothis 3y ago
>Users love PayPal. Genuinely surprised to hear all the love for PayPal, recently. I don't use it much these days (did, years ago but found the experience fairly neutral) but remember a period of everyone seemingly hating PayPal bec
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by nothis 4y ago
Is this one of these innocent little articles popping up that people refer to as "the SVB moment" in the future? Or was this bank just uniquely fucked?
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by nothis 4y ago
None of this should matter as long as the algorithm determining randomness is deterministic. The bottleneck is player input which is the most overestimated bandwidth stat in gaming. It's mouse movements and a couple of keys strokes per
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by nothis 4y ago
Ok, that's worse.
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by nothis 4y ago
Naive question: Once they get out more than they spend, can they just loop the generated energy back in and keep increasing this exponentially?
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by nothis 4y ago
As I understand it, if you're a huge company, you want ToS that ban an obvious, easily enforceable line before anything illegal is said because enforcing just the very edge of legality causes some fuzziness that will likely end in co
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by nothis 4y ago
>Why they just don't release a law that forbids people from making bugs? The more I think about it, isn't that literally what the law is about, lol?
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by nothis 4y ago
Just had the video play without sound and my girlfriend said she thought it was real before she noticed the overlay text being weird. We just went to Amsterdam, too I agree that we'll be shaving off these last 3% of visual artifacts fo
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by nothis 4y ago
Photogrammetry (together with a physical based rendering pipeline to get the lighting just right) probably deserves all the credit in this. I remember first reading about it in 2014, in an article about an indie game for that matter. The Va
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by nothis 4y ago
Art direction trumps tech in games for a while, now. This is just well lit, well researched and compression artifacts smooth out the details. Character's eyes are still kinda dead, animations fidgety, screen space reflection artifacts
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by nothis 4y ago
The way I see it is that by raising the bar like this, you're making more realistic speeds for average users a) more stable/common and b) less expensive.
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by nothis 4y ago
>For people in the EU/UK, how has this currency slide impacted your day to day? Not at all? I mean, I guess you could argue which caused which but the real problem here in central Europe are gas and energy prices. Those legitimately
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by nothis 4y ago
Trying to understand bluetooth's awfulness is a dead-end. I tried. I thought, "yea, you're nerdy enough to read the tech specs, it will be boring but after an hour you'll understand and your bluetooth keyboard will pair
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by nothis 4y ago
Re-check your sources. A lot of pro-nuclear material out there is pure advertising from nuclear lobbies. Nuclear is a hugely expensive and high-maintenance way of generating energy. There's risks that don't show up in neat, averag
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by nothis 4y ago
>The military applications of this tech would be to stir up decent or manufacture outrage in a country for political gains. I didn't need that thought in my life, thank you. Seriously, though, this genuinely makes it possible to gen
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by nothis 4y ago
Honestly, this sounds like tumblr was crazy dependent on both apple and a porn-like business. That's a weird combo and not one that makes me feel particularly sorry for them. There's a reason facebook, youtube, pinterest and, ulti
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by nothis 5y ago
What I'm noticing the past 5 to 10 years is the right outsmarting the left in activism and public imagery. Not with arguments, with wording. It's hard to watch. One way I'm trying to make sense of is the following: The left i
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by nothis 5y ago
Sounds like the limit is computation speed, not conceptual. That should solve itself over the years.
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by nothis 5y ago
That's kinda the plot of Don't Look Up.
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by nothis 5y ago
My browser threw a hissy fit, if you just want to download the PDF with the sample problems, this is the link: https://hosteagle.club/booklets/samples.en.pdf?__cpo=aHR0cHM...
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by nothis 5y ago
What confuses me: These are good photos! Many are sharp, well lit. And they were made from a pocket camera of people who didn't specifically stand still for the photo. Why on earth did they have people stand like grim statues for those
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by nothis 5y ago
Some of those are actually hilarious. Like peak 80s shoulder pad fashion, only even more extreme: https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/s...
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by nothis 5y ago
How can a commercial company own a top level domain like ".app"? I get that they own .youtube or .google but isn't that way too generic? Like a company owning the copyright for the word "Company"?
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by nothis 5y ago
Whenever I read about countries banning sites, people post "just use a VPN, lol". But I wonder: If China really wants to, couldn't they just block VPNs? At the worst, just whitelist a bunch of sites and services and literal

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